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Re: grub-install


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: grub-install
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:28:14 +0200
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On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:13, address@hidden wrote:
> I was wondering about sectors 62 & 63 (counting from 0).
> On my laptop (that had windows wiped the minute I got it),
> I notice that there is a MSWIN4.1 boot record in sector 63
> (I think it actually flows over the next 2 sectors also).

It is just a trace of the Windows boot sector. Once you remove Windows, it is 
a garbage.

> Also sector 62 has the following? Is that BIOS suspend
> to disk info or something, or maybe something left
> over from the windos install?

I don't know. If you are afraid, you can try to fill that with zero (after 
making a backup) and see what happens.

Okuji




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